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MEASURING GAGE.

No. 437,549. Patented Sept. 30,1890.

ATTORNEYS I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD G. ANGELL AND LORENZO F. PIOARD, OF JUNIATA, NEBRASKA;

SAID PICARD ASSIGNOR TO SAID ANGELL.

M EA'SU RlNG -GAG E.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,549, dated Se tember 30, 1890.

Application filed March 15, 1890| To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that-we, EDWARD G. ANGELL and LORENZO F. PICARD, of J uniata, in the county of Adams and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Faucets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide an attachment for measuring and other fancets to facilitate drawing off thick or viscid liquids-such as varnishes, oils, and sirups into vessels-such as bottles and jugswhich have narrow mouths.

Our invention includes several novel features, as hereinafter set forth.

In accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing our device applied to a measuring-faucet and adjusted for discharging liquid into a jug. Fig. 2 is a side view of the device, showing the discharge-pipe closed by the valve. Fig. 3 is a vertical crosssection on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is ahorizontal cross-section on line 4 at of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the device.

The horizontal plate A is attached to the measuring-faucet B, and along narrow liquidconducting tube O is screwed into a hole in and pendent from one end of said plate. Another tube D slides on said tube 0, and has a flange d at its upper end and at its lower end the longitudinal parallel arms d d, between which a ball-valve E, made of rubber, is suit ably secured. Parallel levers F F are pivoted to lugs a on the under side of the said plate A. One end of these levers F bears against the flange d of the sliding tube D, and a cam-lever G is pivoted between their outer ends, as shown.

The plate A has a boss or flange a around the opening, into which the liquid-tube O is screwed, thus forming a socket adapted to receive the nozzle of the faucet B, and ages ket a is placed in such socket to form aliquidtight joint. The device is secured to the faucet proper by means of the screw H, Fig. 2, which passes up through the hole in the middle of said plate and enters a threaded bore in the faucet B. As a further means for Serial No. 344,071. (No model.)

folding the plate securely it is constructed with lateral flanges or ears 6, having notches adapted to receive lugs f, that are pendent from the faucet. A slot 9 also receives a notched lug (not shown) of the faucet.

The ball valve is normally held closed against its seat or the lower end of the tube, the cam-lever being for this purpose placed in the position shown by dotted lines, so that the outer ends of the levers are depressed and their inner ends elevated, thus drawing the sliding tube upward; but when it is desired to draw oft liquid-say into a j ug-the tubes are. inserted in its mouth, as shown by dotted lines, and the cam-lever thrown outward, as shown by full lines, and thus releasing the levers and allowing the tube and its attached valve to slide downward, thus opening the discharge end of the tube. The liquid is thereby conducted into the jug without coming into contact with its mouth, and in avery short time, since the air-outlet is not closed.

What We claim is 1. In a liquid-conducting attachment for faucets, the combination, with a plate adapted for being secured to a faucet and atube pendent therefrom, of a sliding tube. carrying a valve, levers for acting on the sliding tube, and means for locking the said levers in position to hold the valve closed, as shown and described.

2. In a liquid-conducting attachment for faucets, the combination, with the plate having the socket and an orifice at one end and the pendent tube, of the two parallel levers pivoted to the under side of said plate,a camlever pivoted between the outer ends of the two levers and adapted to bear against the plate, and the tube sliding on the fixed tube and carrying the ball-valve at its lower end and having the flange at its upper end for engaging the levers, as shown and described. 90

EDWARD G. ANGELL.

LORENZO F. PIOARD.

Witnesses:

A. P. SLACK, I. M. HICKLER. 

